From owner-freebsd-binup Mon Oct 29 3:55:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-binup@freebsd.org Received: from host2.rila.bg (host2.rila.bg [194.141.1.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A17CC37B403 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 03:55:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from earth.rila.bg ([192.168.201.31]) by host2.rila.bg with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.2966); Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:55:28 +0200 Received: from earth.rila.bg (mitko@localhost.rila.bg [127.0.0.1]) by earth.rila.bg (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9TBujX81774 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:56:45 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from mitko@earth.rila.bg) Message-Id: <200110291156.f9TBujX81774@earth.rila.bg> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: binup@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: mitko@rila.bg From: "Dimitar Peikov" Subject: Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:56:45 +0200 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Oct 2001 11:55:28.0847 (UTC) FILETIME=[9A8AB5F0:01C16070] Sender: owner-freebsd-binup@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org said: > It would probably be possible to create packages from /usr/obj (or > equivalent), and then install these, but the fundamental problem is > that: > > cd /foo/bar ; make install > > is more efficient than > > cd /foo/bar ; make package ; pkg_add bar.tgz > I agree that this is true when all machines are the same, but when you have mixed types of machines in the network, this would not be the good idea. In case there are old machines I think that there must be packages for each machine type (i386, i486, ...). Yes not to all kinds but to these what the system is managed to manage! Am I right? In this case the second variant (with compilation) would be more efficient or the new naming scheme must be required. -- Dimitar Peikov Programmer Analyst Globalization Group "We Build e-Business" RILA Solutions 27 Building, Acad.G.Bonchev Str. 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria phone: (+359 2) 9797320 phone: (+359 2) 9797300 fax: (+359 2) 9733355 http://www.rila.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message